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Google signs deals with 300 European digital publishers for content

New Delhi, 13-May-2022, By IBW Team

Google signs deals with 300 European digital publishers for content

Even as Indian digital news publishers lobby with policy-makers and antitrust body CCI examines allegations by local content generators against Google, the tech company is signing up with publishers in European countries for their content.

Alphabet unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other European Union (EU) countries for their news and will roll out a tool to make it easier for others to sign up too, a Reuters report stated Wednesday, quoting company execs.

The move followed the adoption of landmark EU copyright rules three years ago that require Google and other online platforms to pay musicians, performers, authors, news publishers and journalists for using their work.

News publishers, among Google’s fiercest critics, have long urged governments to ensure online platforms pay fair remuneration for their content. Australia last year made such payments mandatory while Canada introduced similar legislation last month, the Reuters report added.

“So far, we have agreements which cover more than 300 national, local and specialist news publications in Germany, Hungary, France, Austria, the Netherlands and Ireland, with many more discussions ongoing,” Sulina Connal, director for news and publishing partnerships, said in a blogpost seen by Reuters. The blog did not say how much publishers were being paid.

Two-thirds of this group are German publishers, including Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

“We are now announcing the launch of a new tool to make offers to thousands more news publishers, starting in Germany and Hungary, and rolling out to other EU countries over the coming months,” Connal said in the blogpost.

The tool offers publishers an extended news preview agreement that allows Google to show snippets and thumbnails for a licensing fee.

Meanwhile in India, as Indianbroadcastingworld.com had reported earlier, the Digital News Publishers Association has been pushing with lawmakers to mandate laws similar to those in Australia and elsewhere, and the issue has been mentioned within parliament too by some Members of Parliament.


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